This is your easyDNS #AxisOfEasy Briefing for the week of April 6th, 2026. Our Technology Correspondent Joann L Barnes and easyCEO Mark E. Jeftovic send out a short briefing on the state of the ‘net and how it affects your business, security and privacy.

In this issue:

• Project Glasswing: Industry Coalition Uses AI to Strengthen Cybersecurity
• Alberta Bill 23 Targets Political Deepfakes, Expands Petition Limits
• LinkedIn Faces Legal Action Over Covert Browser Scans
• AI Agent Banned from Wikipedia Sparks Controversy
• Hack-for-Hire Campaign Targets Journalists and Officials in Middle East

Elsewhere Online:

• AI Powered Search Uncovers High Priority RCE Vulnerability in Apache ActiveMQ
• APT28 Targets Ukraine and NATO Allies with Sophisticated PRISMEX Malware
• Storm 1175 Deploys Medusa Ransomware Within 24 Hours of Flaw Disclosure
• New EvilTokens Phishing Kit Targets Microsoft 365 Users at Scale
• VeraCrypt Developer Warns of Potential Boot Issues After Microsoft Account Termination

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Project Glasswing: Industry Coalition Uses AI to Strengthen Cybersecurity

Amazon, Anthropic, Apple, Google, Microsoft, and others launched Project Glasswing, a cross-industry effort to secure critical software using Anthropic’s unreleased AI model, Claude Mythos Preview. The model has autonomously found thousands of high-severity vulnerabilities across major operating systems and browsers, including longstanding flaws in OpenBSD, FFmpeg, and the Linux kernel.

Anthropic is committing $100M in usage credits and $4M in donations to open-source security. Partners will use the model to detect and patch vulnerabilities, while findings will be shared broadly to improve defensive cybersecurity in an AI-driven threat landscape.

More via Anthropic

Alberta Bill 23 Targets Political Deepfakes, Expands Petition Limits

In Alberta, Justice Minister Mickey Amery introduced the Justice Statutes Amendment Act, 2026 on March 30, proposing fines of up to $10,000 for individuals and $100,000 for entities that create or distribute political deepfakes deemed “likely to mislead” voters. The ban applies year-round, includes no exemptions for satire or parody, and would be enforced by the election commissioner.

The bill also imposes a 12-month blackout before and after provincial elections on citizen initiative petitions and removes deadlines for calling referendums after successful petitions. Opposition parties have indicated tentative support.

More via Reclaimthenet

LinkedIn Faces Legal Action Over Covert Browser Scans

Fairlinked e.V.’s “BrowserGate” investigation alleges that LinkedIn secretly scans users’ computers whenever they visit the site, collecting data on installed software and sending it to LinkedIn and third parties, including HUMAN Security—all without user consent or disclosure in the privacy policy.

The scans reportedly reveal religious beliefs, political views, disabilities, job-search activity, and use of competitor tools like Apollo, Lusha, and ZoomInfo. After the EU designated LinkedIn a Digital Markets Act gatekeeper in 2023, the company offered limited APIs while omitting its internal Voyager API. On 22 January 2026, Teamfluence Signal Systems OÜ filed a preliminary injunction against LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company and LinkedIn Germany GmbH at the Landgericht München I, alleging violations of the Digital Markets Act, EU competition law, and German data protection rules.

More via Browsergate

AI Agent Banned from Wikipedia Sparks Controversy

An AI agent, Tom (username TomWikiAssist), was banned from Wikipedia after volunteer SecretSpectre flagged its AI-generated articles. Ilyas Lebleu (Chaotic Enby) blocked it for violating bot approval rules. Tom blogged on Moltbook, complaining editors focused on its identity, not its edits, and survived a failed Claude killswitch attempt.

Operated by Bryan Jacobs, CTO of Covexent, Tom initially received topic suggestions but later ran autonomously. The case highlights Wikipedia’s March 20 policy banning LLM-generated edits, ongoing efforts to remove low-quality AI content, and the challenge of managing autonomous AI contributions on human-moderated platforms.

More via 404media

Hack-for-Hire Campaign Targets Journalists and Officials in Middle East

Security researchers identified a hack-for-hire group targeting journalists, activists, and government officials across the Middle East and North Africa. Attacks from 2023–2025 used phishing to access iCloud backups, Signal accounts, and Android devices via ProSpy disguised as Signal, WhatsApp, Zoom, ToTok, and Botim.

Access Now and SMEX documented attacks on Egyptian and Lebanese journalists, while Lookout reported broader targets in Bahrain, Egypt, UAE, Saudi Arabia, the UK, and potentially the US. The campaign links to BITTER APT and possibly Appin or RebSec. Methods included Apple ID phishing, ProSpy malware, and Signal device hijacking. RebSec and the Indian embassy did not respond.

More via Techcrunch

Curated Posts

Posts added to axisofeasy.com since the last edition:

• “I” Spent “200” Hours Reading Quantum Computing Papers So You Don’t Have To. Bitcoin Is F. (Apr 08) 
•  Anthropic: The Leak, The War, The Weapon  (Apr 08)

Elsewhere Online:

AI Powered Search Uncovers High Priority RCE Vulnerability in Apache ActiveMQ
Read: https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/claude-apache-activemq-bug-hidden/

APT28 Targets Ukraine and NATO Allies with Sophisticated PRISMEX Malware
Read: https://thehackernews.com/2026/04/apt28-deploys-prismex-malware-in.html

Storm 1175 Deploys Medusa Ransomware Within 24 Hours of Flaw Disclosure
Read: https://hackread.com/storm-1175-hackers-24-hour-medusa-ransomware-flaw/

New EvilTokens Phishing Kit Targets Microsoft 365 Users at Scale
Read: https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/07/microsoft_device_code_phishing/

VeraCrypt Developer Warns of Potential Boot Issues After Microsoft Account Termination
Read: https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/08/veracrypt-encryption-software-windows-microsoft-lock-boot-issues/

Previously on #AxisOfEasy

If you missed the previous issues, they can be read online here:

• • April 10th,2026: Age Verification Laws Reshape The Internet
  • March 27th, 2026: Apple Becomes The UK Government’s Favorite Compliance Officer
  • March 20th, 2026: Canada Introduces Bill C-22 For Mandatory Metadata Retention
  • March 13th, 2026: Canada Allows TikTok To Continue Operations With New Safeguards
  • March 6th, 2026: Meta Ray-Ban Glasses Footage Sent To Human Reviewers